Asus Hardware issue

I have a Asus P5B-VM mainboard. 2 days ago it started freezing up
right on startup and nothing would work. A friend came over and after
3 hours of work realized there might be a RAM issue. I have 2 1 gig
dimms of Rendition RAM and 2 512 megs of Patriot Value RAM. He
thought that the different Rams were messing everything up. He took
out one of the rams and it started working again. Right now I'm using
the 2 1 gig dimms of ram for a total of 2 gigs of ram and it seems ok
now.

My question is, does anyone know why 2 different RAms will mess a
computer up ? Can Ram be mixed and matched ? Which is better ram the
Rendtion Ram or the Patriot Value RAm ? Can the Asus mainboard take
both types of ram ?

Thanks all.

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